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Emergency Management
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Mixed Category-1
Mixed Category-2
100
The two places the EOP can be found.
What are the Intranet (electronic) and the Command Closet (paper)?
100
A person legally authorized to make healthcare decisions in the best interest of a patient when the patient is not able to make such decisions for himself and to sign consent forms on the patient’s behalf.
What is a Surrogate?
100
A method for differentiating the unique letter characters of similar drug names known to have been confused with one another, such as hydrOXYzine and hydrALAZINE.
What is TallMAN lettering?
100
The abbreviation in this list can easily be misunderstood or misinterpreted and may result in medication errors.
What is the Abbreviations- Do Not Use List?
100
Patient Room Number, Physical Location, Medical Service and Description of upcoming Intervention are all examples of this behavior related to Patient Safety.
What are unacceptable patient identifiers?
200
The Department Emergency Operations Plan (DEOP).
What does each department follow to guide them through the first hour of a disaster?
200
An issue that occurs while the patient is receiving services and can be resolved to the patient or patient representative’s satisfaction promptly, while the patient is still in the hospital, by staff or department management present.
What is a Patient Complaint?
200
The only concentrated electrolyte located in a patient care area, these vials are stored in a designated, clearly labeled bin in the heart room medication cabinet in surgery (room 10).
What is potassium chloride 40 meq/20ml vials?
200
Prior to initiating a blood transfusion, a practitioner will obtain and document this in the patient’s record.
What is an informed consent?
200
This is the gold standard of pain assessment.
What is the patient's self-report of pain?
300
It is posted in each department and on the intranet.
Where is the DEOP located?
300
A formal or informal written or verbal complaint that is made to the hospital by a patient, or the patient’s representative, regarding the patient’s care (when the complaint is not resolved at the time of the complaint by staff present), abuse or neglect, issues related to the hospital’s compliance with the CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs), or Medicare beneficiary billing complaint related to rights and limitations provided by 42 CFR 489.
What is a Patient Grievance?
300
Controlled substance medication disposal units used in patient care areas.
What are cactus sinks?
300
Blood and blood components that will not be used may only be reissued for another patient (instead of wasted) if they are returned to the Blood Bank within this period of the dispense time.
What is 30 minutes?
300
This is used for assessment when the patient is unable to self-report pain.
What is Hierarchy of Pain Assessment Techniques?
400
The back-up telephone system and mass notification system
What are the 2 back-up communication systems in the event of a telephone outage?
400
A document or verbal statement in which an individual states choices for medical treatment or designates who should make treatment choices if the individual should lose decision making capacity.
What is an Advanced Directive
400
An interdisciplinary program involving leadership commitment, education of the healthcare team, patients, and their families, and processes such as formulary management, appropriate use, and de-escalation in order to decrease antimicrobial resistance.
What is antimicrobial stewardship?
400
These are used to assess the adequacy of a patient’s intake compared to the nutrition goal in order to make adjustments in the nutrition prescription and to select appropriate decision-making regarding nutrition support and discharge planning
What are calorie counts?
400
The frequency of ongoing pain assessments by an RN in the presence or absence of pain.
What is a minimum of every shift or more often as patient condition warrants?
500
This is the person responsible for horizontal evacuation of patients on an unit during an emergency and this is the bag in which patient medications are placed to be sent with the patient.
What is the Charge Nurse and what is a Yellow Bag?
500
A patient that chooses to be discharged from IUHB contrary to the advice of the attending physician and of the dangers of leaving would sign this form.
What is an against medical advice ( AMA) form.
500
Two circumstances in which self-administration of medication is allowed in the hospital.
What are medication pumps in place prior to admission and self-administration during teaching or education under supervision of an RN or RPh.
500
A verbal order for this treatment is not allowed per hospital policy.
What is chemotherapy?
500
Safe storage for in-use oxygen cylinders on nursing units.
What are two-wheeled carts?